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Date:      Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:56:33 -0600
From:      Walton Yantis <wyantis@gmail.com>
To:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Suggestion for manual
Message-ID:  <EF2C55ED-D3CD-4BE6-8C09-E7292564D7AA@gmailcom>

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Hi there,

at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/securing-freebsd.html

in the first paragraph, 14.3.1, I suggest the following change based  
on a problem just encountered.

  there as well. You can do this by editing your /etc/ssh/sshd_config  
file, and making sure thatPermitRootLogin is set to NO. Consider every  
access method -- services such as FTP often fall through the cracks.  
Direct root logins should only be allowed via the system console.

  there as well. You can do this by editing your /etc/ssh/sshd_config  
file, and making sure thatPermitRootLogin is set to no. Consider every  
access method -- services such as FTP often fall through the cracks.  
Direct root logins should only be allowed via the system console.

The capitalization of PermitRootLogin  variable to NO caused ssh  
startup to fail on boot.

Walt



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